| The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg *Author In the afternoon or early evening of June 25, 1980, two young women, Vicki Durian and Nancy Santomero, were killed in an isolated clearing in rural Pocahontas County West Virginia. They were hitchhiking to an outdoor peace festival known as the Rainbow Gathering, but never arrived. Their killings have been called ?The Rainbow Murders.?For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted, though suspicion was cast on a succession of local men. In 1993, the state of West Virginia convicted a local farmer named Jacob Beard and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Later, it emerged that a convicted serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin had also confessed. With the passage of time, as the truth behind the Rainbow killings seemed to slip away, its toll on this Appalachian community became more concrete?the unsolved murders were a trauma, experienced on a community scale.Emma Copley Eisenberg spent five years re-investigating these brutal acts, which once captured the . |
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